"Earlier this month, Nintendo’s president and CEO, Satoru Iwata, revealed he’s against laying off workers. Although reducing the number of employees in a company is better for the business in the short run, Iwata doesn’t want the morale of staff to decrease due to the fear that they may be laid off. Speaking with VentureBeat, the founder ofOddworld Inhabitants, Lorne Lanning, has praised Iwata’s stance on layoffs.
“When he said that, in my opinion, he was immortalized in the creative community? I would work with him in a second,” said Lanning. “When a man in that type of position, in a world where the golden rule is the rule and that’s what’s expected at public companies, he stood up and said, “That’s not what we’re about. We’re about building great stuff. We have great people to build great stuff. We’re gonna do that.”
Lanning has also praised Nintendo’s way of doing things. While he’s not entirely sure of whether Microsoft will subsist in 100 years, Lanning is confident Nintendo will be here after a century.
“When I look at the history of Nintendo, I say, “Nintendo is gonna be here in 100 years.” I have no doubt,” Lanning said.” I doubt Microsoft will be here in 100 years. I know Zynga won’t be here in 100 years. I’ve been here longer than Zynga. [Laughs] We’re not making headlines in the Wall Street Journal, but we’re still building what we set out to build. Now we have to be clever and smaller in how we think, but we’re more self-empowered than we’ve ever been.”"
